Jane Goodall

is a freelance writer whose essays have appeared in Griffith Review, Australian Book Review and Inside Story.

About Jane Goodall

Jane Goodall is a freelance writer whose essays have appeared in Griffith Review, Australian Book Review and Inside Story. She is the author of Performance and Evolution in the Age of Darwin (2002), Stage Presence (2008) and a trilogy of crime thrillers.

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Articles by Jane Goodall

'Reading Another Science is Possible and Wakuwal in succession, I am struck by the thought that Stengers and Botsman have written the same treatise in different languages, and from different places in the human psyche. They issue the same call for a tectonic shift in the cognitive landscape.'

Here lies one of the key challenges for a modern translator. How to get the dramatis personae to communicate across the centuries? The convention is to provide some contextual information in footnotes and appendices, but James wants none of this pedantry and aims instead to incorporate essential points in the verse.